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Fuck him.
Fuck Taylor, too.
I know Eloise.
I know her. I mean, yes, I’ve been down the mistrust road with her before, and it ate me alive for ten years.
But I’m done with that.
I jam my phone into my pocket and stalk back toward the private dining room. Right outside the door, I freeze when I hear Massimo’s voice from inside.
“Eloise worked perfectly,” he chuckles.
Holy shit.
Massimo laughs quietly again into the phone.
“It went exactly how I said it would go. See? I told you Eloise would be an asset at that law firm.”
The floor drops out, and my fucking world crumbles.
I manage to keep my expression neutral as I tell Massimo that a work thing needs my attention at the office. Then I’m staggering out of the private dining room and calling Gabriel back.
“Look,” my brother sighs as he answers. “I’m fucking sorry, man. I truly mean that. You do deserve happiness, Alistair, and you have to know how much it pains me to?—
“Gabriel.”
My voice is razor-sharp steel.
“What’s going on,” Gabriel says quietly.
“You’re at the office?”
My blood feels like napalm in my veins. I’m looking with tunnel vision at the wall in front of me as my face turns to a stony mask.
“I am,” my brother says.
“Go to my filing cabinet,” I rasp. “The keys to it and my office door are on a pink lanyard in Katerina’s top drawer. Do it now.”
“Gimme a sec.”
I wait, listening to Gabriel running. Then there’s the sound of my office door swinging open.
“Okay.” Gabriel clears his throat. “I’m in. What am I looking?—”
“Top drawer.”
It’s all horribly clicking into place, and suddenly I know why seeing Katerina’s keys in my office rang a bell somewhere in my head.
It was the day I walked in on Eloise in my office in her panties, with chai latte spilled on her skirt.
…The same chai latte I found sticky and dried on my carpet and splashed on the side of my file cabinet later.
And when I think past her that day, past kissing her, and tasting her, and falling for her bullshit all over again, I know where I saw Katerina’s keys on the pink lanyard.
They were in the lock of that file cabinet.
God in heaven.
